Detroit Free Press: Critic tweaks Occupy Wall Street supporter Michael Moore for Torch Lake manse

Conservative critics of Michigan-bred filmmaker and Occupy Wall Street supporter Michael Moore are having a bit of sport today with an item posted on one of Andrew Breitbart’s websites, Big Hollywood, featuring photos and assessment records for Moore’s sprawling vacation home on Torch Lake.

The photos show a multistory stone, brick and wood-sided home, taken from lake side, and a satellite view that makes the place look like a millionaire’s compound. Which is exactly the point for Breitbart, who ridicules Moore for urging the protesters to “continue their fight against the wealthy 1% of Americans” when he is a one-percenter himself.

Breitbart describes Moore’s getaway as the “kind of luxurious summer home that 99% of Americans can only dream of owning.”

Actually, it’s more luxurious than Breitbart realizes. He tracked down the Forest Home property tax assessment listing the Moore mansion’s state equalized value at $925,000 and appears to take that figure to be its market value. In Michigan, however, SEV represents only 50% of estimated market value, so it’s really a $1.85-million property. At least, according to the assessor.

This is what liberal hypocrisy look like:

Shocker: Big bets on solar company aren't paying off for taxpayers. The key phase of the entire article:

She (Granholm) declined to speak to the Free Press for this report.

Freaking idiot! Plus:

Then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm got the company's United Solar Ovonic subsidiary to open in Greenville. She promised $37 million in incentives to create more than 500 jobs in a west Michigan town devastated when appliance maker Electrolux took its jobs to Mexico.

Government investments, commitments and congressional earmarks totaled more than $170 million for the company. The hope, if not the promise, was that ECD would create more than 1,000 new jobs in Michigan as green technology took hold.

But ECD and United Solar are dying. Stock worth nearly $80 a share three years ago was trading for less than 40 cents a share this week. A Battle Creek plant -- never opened -- is for sale. Hundreds of employees already have been laid off, and this week the company said it will let go 500 more and furlough 400 as it suspends its operations.

Solar Ovonics actually has a really good product, but it cots too much:

UPDATE: From the Free Press comments:

Well Golly Freep that is a big surprise. You could not shut Granholm up when it came to all this green crap and I kept telling all of you since the beginning these solar panels and wind mills were a flash in the pan.

We tried this during the Jimmy Carter days and it was a bust then too. Will you libs ever learn not to repeat the same costly mistakes?

Look at the billions of taxpayer money that has been wasted on this green crap. Look at the mercury poisoned CFL blubs we are now mandated to use.

Being Liberal and green is a disease and a costly one at that.

Can we drill baby drill now?

Animals: Elderly Man Attacked on CTA Platform

This is way cool: MSU in awe of Carrier Classic setting but ready to play. Check the pic:

Michigan History: Today In History: The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald. "On November 10, 1975 the bulk freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior with all hands. The tragedy was immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot."

Wow: Surfer Claims 90 Foot Record Wave. "A surfer from Hawaii says he has broken a new record for the biggest wave ever surfed. Garrett McNamara caught the estimated 90-foot wave off a beach in Nazare, Portgual, around 93 miles north of Lisbon."

Drinking with Bob: Joe Paterno Should Be In Jail... "Along with the entire Penn State Athletic Department and University Officials."

The Blaze: Clyburn on Cain's 'Princess Nancy' Comment

Cry. Me. A. River.

Pajamas Media: Somebody Call Gloria Allred! Occupy Rallies Fester Sexual Assaults, Bad Body Odor and Anti-Semitism 

Another liberal dick: Harry Belafonte gets testy with reporter about Herman Cain. "Singer Belafonte Herman mocks Cain, kisses controversial priest Fr. Pfleiger, and gets testy with fearless reporter William J. Kelly."

PBS: Indiana Crafts Dropout Remedy Through Choice of Schools

Mark Levin: The Health Care System In Massachusetts A Disaster

Wasn't all bad news couple of nights ago: Dem concedes in cliffhanger Va. race

With his concession, the state Senate chamber is at a 20-20 draw. That leaves Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling to break tie votes, and he told the Times-Dispatch that means he’ll side with his party.

“Make no mistake about it, there is a Republican majority in the state Senate,” he said, according to the Times-Dispatch.

Sarah Palin: Fire Eric Holder

When the stories about Operation Fast and Furious first broke, it sounded too crazy even for this administration.

Why would any government official with an ounce of common sense think it’s a good idea to facilitate the smuggling of thousands of guns into the hands of violent Mexican drug cartels? That’s what Operation Fast and Furious did.

You might think Eric Holder’s Department of Justice was setting up a sting operation in which our federal agents would swoop down and arrest the bad guys the minute the guns traded hands. But that’s not what happened. Eric Holder’s DOJ had American gun dealers sell weapons to “straw purchasers” tied to drug cartels without actually following the movement of the guns as they were then sold to Mexican drug lords. They apparently thought this so-called “gun-walking” operation would help them chart the path of gun smuggling, but they didn’t have a plan to actually control the weapons’ movements as the guns were allowed to “walk” into Mexico. All Holder’s DOJ did was arm violent criminals. What manner of fools do we have working in this administration? What’s next? Supplying nuclear weapons components to the Iranians so we can track their activities?

Read the whole thing. At the heart of Fast and Furious was the willful attempt to subvert the 2nd amendment of the US Constitution, and Holder ought to be tried for treason because of that.

Cry me a river already: Dems blast Cain's ‘Princess Nancy’ comment

Democrats are trying to raise indignation over Herman Cain's nickname for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) -- and possibly raise some money off of it.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Thursday included in its weekly email to supporters a note calling Cain out for referring to the former House speaker as "Princess Nancy." They were invited to sign a petition denouncing Cain's comment.

"That’s outrageous. As the first and only woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has spent decades standing up for women and fighting for the middle class," wrote DCCC Executive Director Robby Mook. "She earned the Speaker’s gavel."

Should have called her a drama queen instead.

First in the annals of political cowardice: Obama punts Keystone XL pipeline. "The State Department on Thursday announced that it’s punting a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline until at least the first quarter of 2013 — pushing off a no-win decision for President Barack Obama until well after the 2012 election." Uh uh.

Kicking him when he's down: Gingrich mocks Perry over ‘oops’ moment at Detroit campaign stop. Perry does deserve it though.

Business Insider: Rick Perry's Collapse Is The Best Thing That Could Have Happened To Him

Ain't no tea party:Occupy Detroit group may be evicted. Who the heck wants to occupy Detroit anyway?

Unfortunate headline placement:

So a judge ordered city not to euthanize and the city did it anyway? Can we ignore judges that say ObamaCare is constitutional? Real links to the above:

• City euthanizes Ace the pit bull despite outpouring from rescue groups
• City can't euthanize pit bull, or any dog that looks like it, judge orders

Bloomberg: Jefferson County Files Biggest U.S. Municipal Bankruptcy. Totally run by liberal Democrats of course.

Sticking a finger in God's eye at every available opportunity: Senate Dems move to repeal DOMA

Legal Insurrection: Anti-Cain hoax exposed

CBS Atlanta: Investigator: Herman Cain innocent of sexual advances

HotAir: Video: Cornyn blows up “Bush did it too” on Fast and Furious

Attorney General Eric Holder might not have tried to equate the ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious with the Bush-era Operation Wide Receiver, as he tells Senator John Cornyn in testimony yesterday on the deadly scandal that has resulted in hundreds of murders, including at least one Border Patrol agent.  His defenders in and out of Congress certainly have, however, seizing on the earlier limited operation as an argument that the Obama administration and Holder’s Department of Justice only followed precedent set by the previous administration.  In a deft examination, however, Cornyn gets Holder to admit that Wide Receiver had critical differences from Fast and Furious, differences that went far beyond scope (via PJ Tatler):

Ted Kennedy was a bad man. A really bad man: ‘Star Wars’ actress: Date with Sen. Dodd brought wild questions from Sen. Kennedy

Fisher writes, “Suddenly, Senator Kennedy, seated directly across from me, looked at me with his alert, aristocratic eyes and asked me a most surprising question. 'So,' he said, clearly amused, 'do you think you’ll be having sex with Chris at the end of your date?’”

Fisher continues in her latest tome: “’Would you have sex with Chris in a hot tub?' Senator Kennedy asked me, perhaps as a way to say good night?”

“’I'm no good in water,’ I told him.”

It gets worse: Jerry Sandusky Rumored to Have Been 'Pimping Out Young Boys to Rich Donors,' Says Mark Madden

Chris Matthews and Darrell Hammond - HAH! 

Chris Matthews and Darrell Hammond mocking Chris's own famous laugh on Hardball. Sorry for the unsteady camera work but I was laughing myself.

Matthews is an ass.

Detroit Free Press: Cain can win the GOP nomination, but Obama will wipe the floor with him

If the GOP had said this, it would be racist: David Gregory: No "Grand Wizard" In GOP To Force Cain Out.

David Gregory, NBC News: "Well there is no, you know, Grand Wizard in the party right now who can really force the issue. I've talked to Cain's advisers in Iowa, they think their support is still strong there, that it's not falling. There may be cracks in the foundation according to pollsters I'm talking to, that his numbers may be starting to shift but right now core support remains there."

Too Bad Robert Bird is no longer around. He could have talked Cain down. Plus: "David Gregory has apologized and tweeted the following: "'Wizard' remark this morning was a very poor choice of words. Did not mean to make that connection at all. Was not thinking. I apologize"". The video:

Drunk octopus:

It wasn't all bad news last night (cont'd): Republicans Make Big Gains in Virginia

Good Samaritan Gets Favor Repaid Minutes Later. Check this: "A Canadian man who stopped to help two women change a flat tire on a Wisconsin highway got the favor repaid minutes later when he had a heart attack just after pulling away. "

It wasn't all bad news last night (cont'd): Republicans Win Control of Mississippi Legislature

Oops: Air Force Morgue Lost Body Parts From War Dead. "The military mortuary that receives America's war dead and prepares them for burial lost portions of human remains twice in 2009, prompting the Air Force to discipline three senior officials for "gross mismanagement.""

But don't worry! The government will be much more competent vis a vis ObamaCare.

This used to be the norm, but now it's news: Father delivers own baby

al Reuters: Fannie Mae taps $7.8 billion from Treasury, loss widens

Heritage Foundation: Obama Couldn't Wait: His New Christmas Tree Tax

Doesn't look good: NBA Players Reject Offer From League

Don't mess with poll workers: Poll Worker Bites Voter's Nose in Ohio. "An Election Day poll worker tried to bite off a voter's nose during an argument Tuesday over a campaign sign, police and election officials said."

BreitbartTV: In Zeal To Bash GOP, NBC’s ‘Reverend’ Sharpton Takes Issue With Biblical Teaching. "On his NBC show, Al Sharpton rolls video of Michelle Bachman quoting a Bible verse, "If anyone will not work, neither shall they eat." Sharpton misinterprets this as meaning "if you don't have work, you should starve." Sharpton adds, "Is this your version of America? ... Republicans aren't the answer."" If this is his exegesis on that simple passage, his followers are screwed, and hes no reverend.

I'm from the government, and I'm here to help. And the Detroit Free Press likes it that way: Editorial: Eat healthier, and there are ways government can help. "No one wants to create a nanny state that tells people what they can eat or how many calories to consume. Still, obesity is a public health problem that public policy should try to alleviate." So basically the second sentence overrides the first.

Detroit Free Press: Stage set for GOP debate at Oakland University

AP: Ohio voters reject Republican-backed union limits. Unions are $30 million poorer though. But they'll make that up in no time fleecing taxpayers.

It's not all bad news: Tea party activist wins mayor’s race in Troy

A tea party activist was elected mayor of Troy on Tuesday night, topping a city councilwoman who backed a controversial tax approved in August for the city's library.

Janice Daniels defeated Robin Beltramini by just more than 600 votes, 52 percent to 48 percent, according to complete unofficial returns.

Daniels, a member of the anti-tax group Troy Citizens United, is in line to succeed retiring Mayor Louise Schilling.

Daniels, 58, touts "openness and full disclosure." The 11-year resident has said she's never run for office and said she considers it a strength.

Why does the media continue to label the tea party "anti-tax"? Truly anti-tax people are called anarchists. The Tea Party is for limited taxation that comes with a limited government. Tea partiers like myself have no problem with funding legitimate functions of government (protection). It's the illegitimate ones (cutting checks to other people) that we are against because it is nothing short of theft.

UPDATE: Via Instapundit:

OBAMACARE UPDATE: Voters in Ohio have approved a ballot measure intended to keep government from requiring Ohioans to participate in any health care system.

The Giant Ego Speaks: Bill Clinton: Get rid of the 22nd Amendment

National Journal picks up on a truly odd moment from today’s Morning Joe in more ways than one.  Joe Scarborough tells Bill Clinton that he will be inundated with e-mail and calls after the end of their segment asking why Bill Clinton can’t run for a third term in office, and then blames Republicans for “not wanting another FDR” after his fourth term ended in less than three months due to his death.  “Shouldn’t Americans have that choice?” Scarborough asks Clinton, who seems pleased with the notion:

Eroding: Official: Trustees’ support for Paterno eroding. Eroding!

Tomorrow: GOP debate at Oakland University and what other media outlets are saying

Detroit Free Press: Energy Conversion Devices: Laying off 500, suspending manufacturing

Auburn Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices said late today that it is suspending manufacturing at its four Michigan plants and laying off 500 of its workers, most of them in Michigan.

The troubled maker of solar roofing materials also will not report its fiscal 2012 first-quarter earnings tomorrow and said it has begun discussions with some of its debt holders. The manufacturing suspension will also involve a furlough of 400 employees.

National Review: We’re Still Not Cutting

Just last week, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate passed three new spending bills to increase 2012 funding above 2011 funding levels. The bills will increase spending for the Department of Agriculture by $6.4 billion; for the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development by more than $2 billion; and for the Commerce, Justice, and State departments by more than $694 million.

This isn’t austerity. It’s gluttony.

Detroit Free Press: Editorial: Legislature should rein in bullies, not license them. "Even if they didn't mean to, Michigan Senate Republicans sent a frightening message to kids: It's OK to pick on someone if they don't share your religious values, or if your own sense of moral piety frowns on who they are or what they do." Ironically, the Free Press wants the language removed so that if a students says homosexuality is a sin because of this Bible verse, they will themselves be punished as bullies. This is speech code that turns the first amendment on its head by banning faith. Essentially they want to trade a few young bullies on the local level who will grow up and learn the error of their ways for hundreds of powerful state-level bullies that will neither grow up nor learn theirs. No thanks.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: GOP feels the scourge of black voters' long memory. Apparently that memory doesn't include Democrats being their slavemasters, fighting for slavery, opposing integration, implementing Jim Crow laws, filibustering the civil rights act, breaking up the black family via welfare, and now shackling the black population with an entitlement/victim mentality starting out with failed public schools (also run by Democrats) that black kids are trapped in.

Detroit Free Press: Drew Sharp: If Joe Paterno pleads ignorance, then he must be fired. Isn't this the way they used to do it during the dark ages?

WXYZ: New Detroit Crime Report Card. "Homicides are up, according to Detroit Crime Report card." Keep in mind that Detroit has been run totally by liberals for two generations.

Detroit News:State lawmaker faces recall election in Genesee County. Recall by the MEA, using taxpayer money, for helping take the pressure off of taxpayers. Another reason public sector unions should not exist at all.

Life News: Attorney General Sues to Close Two Michigan Abortion Clinics

“It’s widely known that employees at these facilities tossed unborn babies in the trash, so it is not surprising to find more evidence of callous disregard for state laws intended to protect patient safety,” said Senator Rick Jones. “I applaud Attorney General Schuette for taking steps to hold these facilities accountable.”

Me too.

Legal Insurrection: Rush Limbaugh 11-7-11 Hour 2 Legal Insurrection. "Rush Limbaugh reading Legal Insurrection Blog Post."

Congrats to Professor Jacobson.

Culture of Corruption (cont'd): Ficano fires assistant Wayne county executive

Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano fired a top aide Monday under investigation in a kickback case. Ficano dismissed Assistant Wayne County Executive Michael Grundy after an internal review, he said in a statement.

How about Ficano fire himself?

WXYZ: Wayne County Worker Fired

UPDATE: Poll: Nearly half of Wayne County residents think Bob Ficano should resign

Carpe Diem: New Research Reveals Huge Geothermal Resources in U.S. Accessible with New Advanced Technology 

Wait until liberals learn that H2O is teh #1 greenhouse gas by far.

WOODTV: Some state pension recipients receive $100,000/year. Government jobs have become lifestyle management entities  for union employees, and no longer serve the taxpayers footing the bill:

The War on Poverty is lost: 49 Million Americans in Poverty, Census Calculates

Of coure: Holder to call for tighter gun control in Fast & Furious testimony tomorrow

Greg Gutfeld: Celebrities Need to Shut Up About Pipeline. To be fair they need to shut up about a whole lot of things of which they know absolutely zero about.

Huffington Post: Waiting For The Cable Guy Cost U.S. Almost $40 Billion In 2010: Survey

The Politico: MLK niece rips Jesse Jackson

Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece says the Rev. Jesse Jackson should stop comparing the Occupy Wall Street protests to the civil rights movement, arguing that her uncle would not have condoned the movement.

“I believe that Rev. Jackson is doing a disservice,” Alveda King said on Fox News Monday morning. “My uncle, the whole [civil rights] movement, was founded in prayer, in crying out to God in a peaceful movement. And this [Occupy] movement is not peaceful.”

Well, good: RNC Ad Gets High Praise from Voters

Carpe Diem: U.S. Corn Yields Have Increased Six Times Since the 1930s and Are Estimated to Double By 2030 

Radio Equalizer: Arianna Huffington- Concern For Children In Mississippi Ends With Birth. "Here's today's dose of elitism from Zsa Zsa"

More Huffington: Arianna Huffington: Herman Cain Flap Is Media's 'Latest Balloon Boy' Excess 

Get rid of the CPS: Families torn apart by foster care system. "7 Action News Investigators look into families torn apart by foster care system."

Bureaucrats have no business with other people's children.

CNS News: Occupy DC Protesters Use Toddlers To Block Exit from Reagan Tribute. Human shields!No different than what Hamas and Hezbollah do:

Joe Gerarden: Herman Cain's 4th Accuser Sharon Bialek (aka Stiffler's Mom) Has A Pretty Darned Authentic Testimony

A sad lesson in what not to do: Mom Goes to Get Gas, 2-year-old Vanishes. "Police in Washington state spent a second day Monday searching for a toddler whose mother said he vanished from an unlocked car that ran out of gas."

Gallup: Cain Ties Romney Atop GOP Field

Plus: Circus Circus: Gloria Allred jumps on the Cain Train; Cain staff “welcomes” Allred to staff; Update: Accuser is Sharon Bialek; Allred snarks about Cain’s “stimulus package”

BreitbartTV: NBC News’ Race-Baiting Analyst: Cain’s ‘Predatory Black Sexuality’ Is ‘Very Threatening’. "We're going to see how open the GOP is to this black -- their 'new black friend' when they find out he is harassing blonde women as opposed to black women. That sort of thing of black sexuality -- predatory black sexuality. Very frightening in this country, still. Very threatening. So we'll see how that plays out."

WXYZ: Fixing Detroit's street lights. "The City Council says they are planning on privatizing the city's lighting system as a way to save money." How about privatize everything in Detroit?

Daily Caller:Correcting the ‘fairy tale’: A SEAL’s account of how Osama bin Laden really died

Freelancer Nicholas Schmidle wrote that the SEALs had shot and blasted their way up floor-by-floor, finally cornering the bewildered Al-Qaida leader:

“The Al Qaeda chief, who was wearing a tan shalwar kameez and a prayer cap on his head, froze; he was unarmed. ‘There was never any question of detaining or capturing him—it wasn’t a split-second decision. No one wanted detainees,’ the special-operations officer told me. (The Administration maintains that had bin Laden immediately surrendered he could have been taken alive.) Nine years, seven months, and twenty days after September 11th, an American was a trigger pull from ending bin Laden’s life. The first round, a 5.56-mm. bullet, struck bin Laden in the chest. As he fell backward, the SEAL fired a second round into his head, just above his left eye.”

Chuck Pfarrer rejects almost all of that story.

Read the whole thing.

Daily Caller: MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Politico's Jonathan Martin snicker at journalism's ‘code of ethics’. Of course:

The Society of Professional Journalist’s code of ethics is apparently unknown to, and easily dismissed by, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. On “Andrea Mitchell Reports” Monday, the anchor introduced Politico’s Jonathan Martin after playing a clip of former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain suggesting some reporters at an event in Texas check the Society of Professional Journalism’s “code of ethics.”

“Jonathan Martin is the senior reporter for Politico and broke the original story,” she said. “I assume you read the journalistic code of ethics, whatever that is.”

Amateur Hour: Obama Caught on Mic Trashing Netanyahu

Socialism, as described by Churchill:

Toledo Blade: Anti-bullying rules too vague, critics. That's a feature, not a bug. That way liberals can makeup the rules any which way they want.

moonbattery: Obama Praises “Diversity” of Muslims-Only Hajj. Uh uh:

Plus:

Pamela Geller laughs:

Oh yes, Mr. President, the hajj is “one of the world’s largest and most diverse gatherings,” except for the banned and persecuted Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus and all non-Muslims forbidden from entering Mecca.

But then, from the point of view of a liberal, diverse just means non-White, non-Christian, and/or non-Western, and therefore sacrosanct.

By this definition, Easter is not diverse. Consequently:

Remember when Obama blasted the GOP for putting politics ahead of country? Tina Korbe: Priorities: State Department might delay decision on Keystone XL until after 2012 election

HotAir: The Democratic National Convention: How the DNC plans to circumvent North Carolina’s right-to-work status

BreitbartTV: Gingrich Hammers NBC News’ Curry, Media Over Cain Obsession

NBC News' Ann Curry lowers the bar even more by suggesting there are "unanswered questions" that must be addressed.

Gingrich: "...when the news media goes and finds an anonymous report about an anonymous incident...and you decide that matters more than every other issue in the campaign, that may put your judgment in doubt, as you, being the institutional news media."

MSNBC: Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks. Just like abortion today!

NYT: Deaths Put Focus on Pastor's Advocacy of Spanking. But of course murdering babies via dismemberment is AOK!

Daily Mail: Revealed: How Obama was playing golf until 20 minutes before Navy SEALs began mission to take out Bin Laden. We all have our priorities...

Washington Post: Independents and moderates agree: GOP deliberately sabotaging Obama's jobs policies. "Ever since Obama began aggressively calling out the GOP for obstructing his jobs policies, insisting that Republicans are “putting party before country,” pundits have ominously warned that he risks alienating the middle of the country with such a stark, partisan and finger-pointing message. But the new Post poll finds that independents and moderates essentially accept Obama’s diagnosis of what’s going on — majorities of both groups agree that Republicans are blocking Obama’s good faith efforts to fix the economy for political reasons." What "good faith efforts?" He is destroying the economy and more of the same will do more harm.

OWS: "If you're a white man, then shut the f--k up about race". "Recorded at Occupy New York, November 2011."

Rush: Rush Limbaugh - Politico All The News That's Fit To Whisper

Rob Kraft: America-Hating Obama Loves the People's Republic of China. "Obama is either a fool or a marxist or both." Both of course.

High tech lynching (cont'd): Cain Accuser's Graphic Claim

The woman at the center of the latest Herman Cain sexual assault accusations unveiled detailed and graphic accusations during a press conference on Monday. According to her, Cain tried to grope her genitals and then tried to force her head into his crotch in the late 90s.

Sharon Bialek told reporters Monday in New York that she met with Cain to ask about getting her old job back at the National Restaurant Association in July 1997 when the incident happened in Washington. At the time, Cain was chief of a restaurant trade group.

She said he reached under her skirt for her genitals and pushed her head toward his crotch in July 1997.

Bialek said that, when she asked Cain what he was doing, Cain said, "You want a job, right?"

Related: Rush Limbaugh - Gloria Allred - Cain Decided To Provide Her With His Idea Of A Stimulus Package

Oversight and Reform: Issa Stands Up for Second Amendment Rights on Real Time with Bill Maher

Got Axt: Airport authority chairwoman quits after Mullin firing. "Wayne County Airport Authority Chairwoman Renee Axt is announcing her resignation today, one week after she and fellow members fired Turkia Mullin as its CEO."

Detroit News: Bing seeks $750K for 5,000 street light repairs. Another boondoggle coming down the pike.

Detroit Free Press: Mitch Albom: Kids in Haiti are longing for a chance to learn, but they need your help. Meanwhile, kids in Detroit are also longing for a chance to learn, but are trapped in failed government/Democrat-run schools they can't get out of because of union domination, all with the approval of liberals like Mitch Albom.

AP: Judge blocks graphic photos on cigarette packages. Like this one:

"Leon found the nine graphic images approved by the Food and Drug Administration in June go beyond conveying the facts about the health risks of smoking or go beyond that into advocacy — a critical distinction in a case over free speech." Actually, I was hoping they would keep the graphic images. That way liberals won't complain when we mandate Planned Parenthood put up pictures of dead babies on their front walls.

Culture of corruption (cont'd): Detroit to settle suit alleging unlawful behavior by Monica Conyers

UPDATE: Where in the world is Monica Conyers? Port Huron

Powerline blog: The Tenth Commandment

Moonbattery: Happy End of Daylight Savings Time

Legal Insurrection: “the dusty old form of the personal political blog”

That’s how Ben Smith describes what he used to do at Politico.  (BTW, I’ve always distinguished bloggers at Politico from the news operation.)

He’s now transformed, as of today, his personal blog at Politico into a mini whatever, with his own staff, a mechanism he sees as the future:

Another failed social war: U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Expands War on Drugs

HotAir: Did Obama administration blow bin Laden intel with touchdown dance? Would not surprise me on damned bit.

Washington Times: What’s so funny? Comedians say GOP. "With Election Day looming one short year away, Mr. Obama’s most effective heat shield turns out to be his loyal opposition: Republicans scrapping to unseat him and getting lampooned for it by late-night TV comics. The jokes range from blistering to silly to simply sophomoric. But it should be all the same to Mr. Obama: They’re not targeting him." Of course not. They're all liberals!

UK Telegraph: McDonald's chief: Curb spending and cut taxes

NYT: The way the job market is going, it will never be robust enough to bring down the unemployment rate, now at 9 percent, or 13.9 million people.  Monthly job growth has slowed to an average of just 90,000 new jobs a month over the past six months... Blame Obama. Because the NYTs won't.

NYT: The Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-Being

"In 2009, the median net worth (all assets minus all debts) of households headed by an adult ages 65 or older was 42% more than that of their same-aged counterparts in 1984. By contrast, the net worth of a typical household headed by an adult under the age of 35 in 2009 was 68% less than that of their same-aged counterparts in 1984. "

New York Post: Occupy until ‘2025’! "Now they want to Occupy the Future.  —  Determined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have vowed they're not leaving Zuccotti Park anytime soon, and their online agenda suggests they mean business — with events scheduled through Oct. 26, 2025." Good luck with that.

USA Today: Bill Clinton's back, with a plan to help the economy. Unfortunately, his plan doesn't include firing Obama in 2012, which is why it would fail.

Jim Clyburn goes after negro who strayed off the liberal plantation: Top House Dem: Cain thought he was above presidential vetting process. Obama meanwhile is yet to be vetted.

Why doesthis not surprise me? New Woman Accusing Herman Cain Of Sexual Harassment Hires Gloria Allred. For her part, Allred was a Clinton apologist.

Heh: Best Buy Uniform Prank (Remastered) . "80 people enter a Manhattan Best Buy wearing blue polo shirts and khaki pants. Chaos ensues."

Pot, meet kettle: Schumer Predicts Super Committee Will Fail

AP: Race Rundown: 2012 Race Off to Muddled Start. "The race for the White House is off to a chaotic start as President Barack Obama is mired down by a sour economy and the GOP field is still overcrowded with candidates." They sound like Obama had nothing to do with the sour economy. He caused it!

Ed Morrissey: Why natural gas beats wind power and other “green” experimental energy technologies

Occupy DC Attack Victims Interviewed 

Washington Post: Wall Street’s resurgent prosperity frustrates its claims, and Obama’s

President Obama has called people who work on Wall Street “fat-cat bankers,” and his reelection campaign has sought to harness public frustration with Wall Street. Financial executives retort that the president’s pursuit of financial regulations is punitive and that new rules may be “holding us back.”

But both sides face an inconvenient fact: During Obama’s tenure, Wall Street has roared back, even as the broader economy has struggled.

ChicagoLand: City fines and fees double, triple for minor and major offenses. 

If your car is impounded for carrying drugs, driving drunk, soliciting a prostitute or carrying a firearm registered to someone other than the driver, the penalty will double — to $2,000. But, if the violations occur within 500 feet of a park or school, the fine will triple — to $3,000.

If your car is seized for drag racing on Chicago streets, there’s a new, $1,000 fine in addition to the towing and storage fee. For playing a radio too loud, the new fine will be anywhere from $500 to $750.

If the vehicle is snatched for driving with a suspended or revoked license or displaying altered temporary registration permits, the fine would double — to $1,000. Vehicles towed after being used in an unlawful attempt to flee or elude police officers would also double — to $2,000.

Tampering with parking meters or pay-and-display boxes — something motorists have done on occasion to vent their anger at the deal that privatized Chicago parking meters — would carry a fine ranging from $500 to $750.

The mayor isn’t just throwing the book at criminals.

He’s also raising nuisance fines. They include:

†Allowing weeds to grow to a height that exceeds 10 inches — $600-to-$1,200-a-day, up from $500-to-$1,000.

†Illegal dumping or allowing trash to accumulate in a way that provides a food supply for rats — $300-to-$600, up from $250-to-$500.

†Accumulation of materials or junk on any open lot or other premises not placed on open racks “elevated not less than 18 inches above ground”: $300-to-$600, up from $250-to-$500.

†Failure to maintain vacant lots and keep them clear of debris: $300-to-$600.

†Neglecting to register or renew registration of a vacant building: $500.

Get ready for unionized bureaucrats walking down your street with a tape measure checking out your weeds...

Detroit News: Michigan schools reap ‘best practices’ windfall. Funny what can happen when you put a pile of money in front of people.

Boondoggle: 49 state retirees collect pensions that top $100K. How is that not fleecing the taxpayers? Government retirees getting paid more not to work than those paying them get to work? Someof these people need to be put in prison.

Detroit Free Press:Editorial: For now, gas tax hike should be an option to fund roads. Michigan has the 6th highest gas tax in the nation. How about repealing prevailing wage laws instead and make road work a lot cheaper? Just a thought...

AP: Obama to promote ways for veterans to find work. I have a real simple one: help kick is ass out of office 2012.

Mass transit boondoggle: Detroit People Mover fares rise today

Not the kind of competition I like to see: Casino to open in Toledo: A new Michigan-Ohio rivalry

Barry Ritholtz: What caused the financial crisis? The Big Lie goes viral.

A Big Lie is so colossal that no one would believe that someone could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. There are many examples: Claims that Earth is not warming, or that evolution is not the best thesis we have for how humans developed. Those opposed to stimulus spending have gone so far as to claim that the infrastructure of the United States is just fine, Grade A (not D, as the we discussed last month), and needs little repair.

Wall Street has its own version: Its Big Lie is that banks and investment houses are merely victims of the crash. You see, the entire boom and bust was caused by misguided government policies. It was not irresponsible lending or derivative or excess leverage or misguided compensation packages, but rather long-standing housing policies that were at fault.

The Earth isn't warming, natural systems creating order from disorder violate a basic premise underpinning all of science, and the government did cause the financial crisis via social engineering through the mortgage system. Nobody is calling banks victims, but they were certainly goaded into subprime mortgages by liberals in Fannie and Freddie that demanded people that couldn't afford a home get a home.

Daily Caller: Rediscovered 2004 Senate ad shows Obama pitching similar rhetorical themes. Shicker: "A rediscovered video from Barack Obama’s 2004 Senate race shows him road-testing his current rhetorical techniques, pitching far-left policies, and depicting business and the marketplace as negative forces."

 

Big Government: The Municipal Bond Market Is Imploding

Washington Examiner: White House should stop fighting Solyndra subpoena. Another lesson in hypocrisy courtesy of batboy: "But Waxman lost no sleep worrying about unduly imposing on executive prerogatives a decade ago when a Republican, George W. Bush, was in the White House and his vice president, Dick Cheney, convened an energy task force. Cheney caused an uproar on Capitol Hill and in the liberal mainstream media when he rejected the demand of congressional Democrats, led by Waxman who was then the ranking minority member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, that hundreds of task force documents be made public."

Washington Post: Romney, seen as most electable, still struggles to break out of pack, poll shows. Seen as most electable by the media that wants him as a week candidate for Obama.

Legal Insurrection: Politico v. Herman Cain in numbers

Days as of 8 p.m. Eastern today since Politico broke the story - 7
Politico news stories about or mentioning “Herman Cain“: 138
Politico news stories about or mentioning “sexual harassment“: 91
Politico news stories about or mentioning “sexual harassment” not involving Herman Cain: 0
Politico news stories showing what Herman Cain actually did: 0
Politico news stories showing specifically what Herman Cain was accused of: 0
Percentage drop in Herman Cain favorability rating as reported by Politico: 9
Politico news stories about or mentioning “Solyndra“: 9
Politico news stories about or mentioning “Fast and Furious“: 3
Politico news stories about or mentioning “unemployment“: 17
Politico news stories about or mentioning “recession“: 14
Politico’s credibility self-destruction: Priceless

Shocker, no?

Washington Post: On electoral map, Obama still has routes to victory in 2012, despite low ratings. I reckon each one of those routes involves the media slavishly covering for the in over his head Obama.

The Hill: Personal behavior seen as critical to how they cast ballot, say voters

An overwhelming majority of likely voters think it’s important to consider a politician’s private foibles when assessing his or her suitability for office.

But they also contend that presidential campaigns have become dirtier over the past generation, perhaps indicating a reluctance to accept allegations against particular candidates at face value. 

Detroit should follow suit: Toledo to raze record number of abandoned houses

The Politico: Ex-Pelosi aide's turnabout work. "Even by the revolving-door standards of Washington, this one has heads spinning: The Democratic staffer who was Nancy Pelosi's messaging guru during the health care debate is now working for a group led by the law's most powerful opponents." Can we call this Benedict Arlenitis?

Jack Kelly: The big college scam. "t's bad enough; the president's loan initiative will make it that much worse  —  The biggest consumer ripoff in America today — and the next economic bubble to burst — is higher education.  —  Tuition and fees at colleges and universities rose 439 percent between 1982 and 2007." I'd agree in areas like women' studies and education. But not in physics, chemistry or applied sciences.

It's no tea party (cont'd): Head and Body Lice Outbreak Announced at #Occupy Portland Squatters Camp (Video)

Leonard Pitts Jr: Pious racial indignation over Cain's offenses. When blacks stray off the liberal plantation, Pitts is right there to throw Oreo cookies at them on the way out.

Toledo Blade: Regional ACLU to meet with ‘Occupy’. Not to tell them that they are batshit stupid, but to give them a fist bump.